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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
Convict BrOtt's Great Shamming Act.

Lew M. Brott, State prison convict
at Jackson, sentenced wear ago to
three years for larceny, began several
months ago to develop symptoms of
paralysis. He would suddenly fall to
the ground while at work and mould not
eat for long periods. At length he had
to go to bed The muscles of his face
became rigid, the eyes fixed, and he
ceased to speak or eat only as food was
fed him with spoon. He was appar-
emily deaf and could not see. Physi-
clans from all parts of the State exam
ined him, and all pronounced his
madady paralysis. The prison physi-
clan, however, believed Brott was feign-
ing all his symptoms, but at the same
time he deemed it nearly impossible for
him to do 80. The doctor determined
to try new remedy. He called the at
PENDANTS into the hospital and told them
in the presence of Brott that the case
was peculiar one, and the convict
could not live beyond a few DAYS any
way, and that the next day he should
proceed to chloroform Brott, saw the
skull and see what the disease was. The
doctor then left, and very shortly Brott
began to move, and calling the hospital
attendant to him he told that official
that he had been shamming from the
start III order to get pardon, and did
this for sympathy. Brott was routed
out of bed and was put to work in the
paint thop. The doctor says he has
heard OF one similar case in this coun-
try, but only one.-ChicGgO Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
A Phenomenal Crazy Quilt.

A Warrensburg (Mo.) letter says:
Miss Ella Fike, of this city, has just
completed crazy quilt which she has
spent over four years in making. 1t is
9 yards in width and q yards long, and
is bordered with heavy ruby-colored
plush and lined with gold colored surah
The feature of the quilt is that it con-
sista entirely of silk, satin, velvet and
plush scraps from famous and noted
persons, such as Presidents and their
wives, mostly all of President Arthur's
Cabinet and their families, most of
President Cleveland's Cabinet, officials
and families, of the United States Su-
preme Court, members and families of
diplomatic corps, United States Sena-
tors and their wives, Governors and
families of different States, actors and
actresses and other noted persons.
Every piece in the quilt has n history.
The quilt comprises nine large blocks,
one of which contains pieces from the
dresses and cravats of members of her
graduating classes and her teachers.
The kind of work which she has decor
ated it with are fiat and raised wool and
silk chenille and arasene, tinsel en-
broidery, brush painting, Kensington
painting, raised work in ribbon, velvet
and plush, Kcnsington embroidery in
silks and crcwels, braiding, beading,
applique, etching, transfer, cross-stiteh,
different designs in fans, palettes,
plaques and bugs of silk, satin, velvet
and plush. The quilt contains pieces of
ribbons from two of Mrs. Cleyeland's
wedding bonnets.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
A Object Lesson in Economy

We now sport nice mich COW. How
did we get her? Paid $40 for her. the
whole amount being ten cents per dav,
saved sinch March 6, 1886. On that day
a friend of ours insisted on TREATING us
to a smoke, as it was our birthday, but
we refused the kindness, informing him
courteously that we never smoked a CIGAR
to which he replied that he AVERAGED
from one to three per day, at a cost of five
cents to twenty cents each day. and that
he never missed the small change. We
told him from that day on we would Law
away ten cents per day as long as we
were able to do so, and see how much it
would amount to eIch year. We have
kept it up to date, and as consequence
we have fine Durham COW and cali
bought with four hundred ten-cent
pieces. --Bander0 (IeeQSl Bngle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
SCYTHE SONG.

Mowers, weary and brown and blithe,
What is the word methinks We know.
Endless overworl that the Scythe
Sings to the blades of the grass belowl
Scythes that swing in the grass and clover,
Something, still, they say as they pass;
What is the word that, over and over,
Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?
Hush, ah hush, the Scythes are saying,
Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep
Hush, they say to the grasses swaying,
Hush, they sing to the clover deep,
Hush-'tis the lullaby Time is singing
Hush, and heed not for all things pass,
Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging
Over the clover, over the grass!
-Longmqn'S Magazine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
Mrs. CIeveland's Simple Luncheon.

A Philadelphia letter to the Chicago
ST. ibatn6 says: She stood the torture of
long-continued handshaking here adj
mrably, though it raised some big bllst-
ers on her hands. She was pretty well
worn out when she left at nearly mid
night on the train for home. She had
Just come from the big dinner given to
the President by the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania and other learned bod
les. While her husband and the other
guests on the floor were discussing a
superb menu, she and q coterie of
other ladies looked on from the Prince OF
Wales's box, and ate nothing more filling
than the substance of many laudatory
speeches. She counted, however, on
good solid luncheon on the way home,
as an order had been left at fashiona-
BILE hotel near by for something uncom.
manly good. As she was seated in her
compartment of the drawing-room car
that President Roberts of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company had placed at
her disposal, and the train was about to
start, the French head-waiter from the
hotel came in with his face as sad-look-
ing as figure on tombstone.
''Madame," he explained; MADAME,
something terrible has happened-ah
very terrible!''
'EWhat?" asked the Presidents wife,
in alarm, her face beginning to pale.
''You remember the luncheon?"
''Well?"
eve came with it here too soon.
There was no fire here anywhere, and
we were forbidden to make one for fear
of filling the depot with smoke, and so
rendering it Objectionable to your nos
trils, madame"
eyes
"And so we sent it back to the hotel
to keep it warm. My walters, who have
Just come from the hotel with wraps for
some of the ladies, were not informed,
and so they have left the luncheon be-
hind"
go, it is nothing" answered Mrs.
Cleveland, with the spirit of martyr.
eve shall manage to get along. But,
dear me, am hungry
"Will you never forgive us, madame?"
81 forgive you now. But is there
really nothing to eat on the caro-
Nothing, madame.
'Nothing?"
Except, madame, some bread"
bfedU Linen We uLS dl I1SIlu.
'And some butter, madame.
"Good!'
"And some tomatoes. We intended
them for salad"
Tomatoes? Why, we revell in lux
ury p
OFF the train started, and for half an
hour afterwards apparently, the first
lady of the land gayly munched bread
and butter and raw tomatoes. She ex-
pressed only one regret-there was no
salt for the tomatoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
Awaiting Death in War Paint.
From the Washington Start

In 1861 I was hunting some lost
horses in the broken country west of the
Big Horn river. [ had ridden all the
morning over country that was strange
to me. About eleven O'Clock [ crossed q
plateau and was surprised to come sud
denly to the edge of canyon, the ex-
istence of which / had not even supect-
ed. In the canyon was stream with
clumps of cottonwood timber along its
banks, and in one of the open spaces
was an Indian lodge. The Indians that
hunted in that country were peaceable,
but the war was just over and the Sioux
were feeling very sore. If they were
Grows OF Arapahoes [ might get some
information about my horses. 1 laid
down and watched. No smoke came
from the tepee; no one moved around
it; half q dozen ponies grazed a few
hundred yards distant. There was not
even dog, which looked rather suspi-
ciOus.
After waiting five minutes 1 knew no
more than at first. Suddenly three
Whitehall deer came from the timber
and walked leisurely across the opening
Then [ knew that the camp was desert
ed, and the strangeness of it startled
me. I mounted and rode down to the
creek and straight to the tepee. l threw
back the flap, and 1 shall remember
what [ saw until death. In the centre
of the tepee was spread a buffalo robe
and on the robe were guns and scalps
and many arrows; and sitting cross
legged around the robe were six braves
of the Sioux nation. All were in their
prime-all decked out in war paint and
each one held bow and arrow in his
hand. On every face was an expression
of calm Indifference, as of one who
neither suffers nor enjoys, neither hopes
nor fears. The faces were those of dead
men, and the smallpox had marked
them with its awful mark. They took
their misery with their heads up, and
even the horrors of this disease could
leave upon their hearts no stain of fear,
upon their brows no mark of suffering
And this that their God might judge
them men, and fit them to pitch their
camps forever in the groves and green
fields of paradise.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
A Cook With $4,000 Per Annum.
From the London Figaro.l

lElOul bIlG IJOIdoll
I had more than once been told of the
MYSTERIOUS French chef in London who
earns more than the salary of an Under
Secretary of State by the exercise of his
skill as faster, but I have hitherto al
ways remained somewhat skeptical as to
his existence. But now Max O'Rell
gives us such authoritative details about
this eminent Gordon bleu that his presence
in our midst can no longer be doubted.
Moreover, curious readers by going to
the Cafe Royal some day soon after
noon may see this mysterious professor
of astronomy in the flesh, for he is ac-
customed to take his dejeuner there about
that time. He is tall, thin, and gen
tlemanly-looking individual, and not
infreQuently may be seen, his meal con-
cluded, leaving the Cafe Royal in the
same we'll appointed broughan in which
later in the day he makes his profession
al rounds. For he is not the cook of
any club or aristocrat in particular; he
is rather what may be called consult
ing chef, and it is his daily task to visit
the kitchens of the houses he has ON his
engagement list.
These houses are those in which a
dinner party of Importance is to be Civ
en- that night, and it is the duty of the
chef when he arrives at the first on his
list to aight, proceed to make his way to
the kitchen, and there to go through
the process of tasting all the made dish
es included in the menu, especially into
those into the composition of which
sauces and other complicated concoc-
tons enter 1t is then his business to
suggest a pinch more salt in this one,
dash of sugar or garlic, as the case
may be, in that one, drop of Paragon
or a sprinkling of spice in the other
one. For two guineas, which is his nor
NAL fee, he, in short, puts the finishing
and otter the most important touches to
a West-End dinner, and as, during the
season, he has often four or five such
engagements booked for one night, it
can be readily seen that he earns an in
come of upward of $4,000 per annum
without difficulty, and has also the
rare satisfaction of following a profess
ion that cannot fail to be in the most
liberal sense of the word ''to his taste"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
A WORD OF WARNING.

rbsr oro v white soaps represented be just good as the Ivory
% ARR NOT 1 like all countee peculiar and remarkable qualities Of
the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist getting it,
by Prcter&
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
Sick Headache

Is Of the most distressing affections and people
its victims deserve sympathy. But the great
success Hoods Sarsaparila has had in curing sick
headache makes it almost foolish to allow the
trouble to continue By its tenng and invigorating
effect upon the digestive organs Hoods Sarsaparls
readily gives relief when headache arises from ind
gestien and in neuralgia conditions by building
the debilitated system, Hoods Sarsapariia removes
the cause and hence overcomes the difficulty.
my wife suffered from sick headache and neu-
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much relieved" W. R. BARo, Wilmington, Ohio
Hoods SarsapariIla
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

The Congress of British Trades Unions
recently adopted resolutions in favor of
the eight-hour day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

The man who scales the roof will usually be
found to possess a timer voice.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

Good resolutions, like squalling baby at
church, should be carried out.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
Overlooked Women.

Naturalists say it takes a pair of
quails but fifteen minutes to mate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

"RoYAL GLUE" mends anythingl Broken
China, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs Gro
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03
CONSEJMPTEMN

which is ScrOfuIa of;llc lungs, is arrested
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

DR.. McGlynn is reported as declaring that
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man to carry it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-03

Sick and bilious headache cured by DR..
Pierce's Pellets
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aAHHA 7
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-17
Eun.ra, Goxernor R.r,,att.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16-The obsequies of
Governor Washington Bartlett. who died in Of
fce occurred in this city to-day, his remains
being taken to Laurel Hill Cemetery. He was
given a state funeral and the occasion in
many respects one of the most remarkable in
the history of the Pacific coast. There was
complete cessation of business in the city. and
this was the rule throughout the State of Cali
fornia- In San Francisco the buildings were
heavily draped. and flags were displayed at half
mast from all the public and numerous private
buildings. The remains Of the dead Governor
lay In state for two days at Pioneer Hall, Gov
ernor Bartlett having arrived in this city in
service at Grace Church the public escort pre-
coded the body to the cemetery. This included
all the federal and State judges and public Of
nciais In carriages. one thousand United States
troops and marines, and 1000 National Guard
troops, In addition to numerous civic societies.
making ten thousand ma-chers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-17
General and miscellaneous.

Travel over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul road is heavy that night trains are run
In two sections. the last one composed OF elgnt
well-hlled Pullman coaches.
A move is on foot at Chicago to place the ten
western railway associations under one roof,
where the managers wrangie from early
morn until midnight should they choose. to do so.
The Southern Pacific is the only road in the
world ballasted with salt Fifty miles of its
track were laid blocks of the most beautiful
crystals The saline deposit on this road Is said
TO be inexhaustible.
O.. New England has railroads which earn annual
y between $25 900 and $50 600 per mile A West
ern road which pays $1,000 per mile is considered
GOOD road, and quite n large per cent. of them
10 not pay over So 500 per mile per annum.
Freight shipments into Dakota are said TO be
immense stimulated by the remarkable pros
perity OF that section. The large wheat crop and
vast new railroad construction have been fol.
lowed by the starting OF many towns and the
building of numerous elevators.
The Senate of New Hampshire on Thursday
passed bill regulating the heating of passenger
coaches. Any road which, after Jan. l. 1889.
heats it's coaches with common stove will be
subject TO a fine OF $500 The method of heating
the coaches must be approved by the State Rail-
road mmission.
Bears on the stocks of the North western roads
use an argument that there are more roads
between Chicago and St. Paul than between
Boston and New York. This is true, but the
existing roads, when crops are good. are unable
10 handle the traffic promptly. and their bust
ness so to speak, is in it's infancy. It should be
borne in mind that Dakota alone is as large
all OF New England and New York and Pennsyl-
vania. and Dakota is but one or group or
Northwestern States and Territories which
draw their supplies from Chicago, and of which
supplies 90 per cent pass through St. Paul.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-17
An Old Negro Murdered by a Mob.

CUTHBERT, Ca, Sept 16-A few days ago
Ransom Mollard, young negro working the
plantation OF Mr. Buck Smith, was arrested at
the instance of his employer upon charge of
stealing seed cotton. In the quarrel which led
to the arrest Mollard pulled pistol on Smith,
who fired Mt the negro. slightly wounding him.
The trial Of the case resulted in a compromise
the negro being released. Night before last an
unknown party fired q load OF buckshot into
Smiths bedroom, but no particular harm was
done. Yesterday party of masked men went
to the hoYse of Adam Molard. the father of
Ransom. who lives the plantation of Mr..
Shepherd. The mob called for Adams son.
The family had an inkling of the approach of
mob, and fled. The old man denied that the
boy there, and the mob began firing. The
old man started out of the front door to seek
the assistance of his employer, and had gone but
thirty steps when he instantly killed By
load of buckshot in the breast. negro woman
in the cabi n shot in the leg About this
time two OF the boys. who had been hiding under
a tree near by, started on a run for the road A
number of shots were fired after them, but they
kept on. Late last evening one came back.
bullet had grazed his head. The other is said to
have died in the woods, but nothing definite is
known abOut il.